Criminal Code

Marginal note:Publication prohibited

• 276.3 (1) No person shall publish in any document, or broadcast or transmit in any way, any of the following:

  • (a) the contents of an application made under section 276.1;

  • (b) any evidence taken, the information given and the representations made at an application under section 276.1 or at a hearing under section 276.2;

  • (c) the decision of a judge or justice under subsection 276.1(4), unless the judge or justice, after taking into account the complain­ant’s right of privacy and the interests of justice, orders that the decision may be published, broadcast or transmitted; and

  • (d) the determination made and the reasons provided under section 276.2, unless

    • (i) that determination is that evidence is admissible, or

    • (ii) the judge or justice, after taking into account the complainant’s right of privacy and the interests of justice, orders that the determination and reasons may be published, broadcast or transmitted.

• Marginal note:Offence

  (2) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.